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Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Make your own upcycled paper seed packets.

It's the time of year for saving seeds, and I like to make these cute little packets to store them in.

They're a great way to use up or upcycle pretty paper, I use magazines or colouring book pages. And they're super easy to make, with no measuring or using templates. In fact it took longer to write out these instructions than it does to make a seed packet!

You will need

A5 paper

scissors

glue

Fold the paper in half then open it out. Cut a centimetre off 3 sides of one half of the paper, starting and ending at the centre fold.

Fold the paper in half again, with the smaller side on top. Fold the edges over to create a crease, then unfold and cut a square notch in the bottom corner and cut the top into a flap shape.

Glue the side and bottom flaps down, but leave the top one un-glued cos that's where you'll put the seeds in. Once the packet is full of seeds you can tuck the top flap in, or glue it down. Don't forget to label the packet with the kind of seeds and when they were saved too.

Ta-dah! Finished! These also make great envelopes. And you can make them any size you like.

They look wonderful. I really like the look of them. I have been into origami for a while. I'll bet you can find a simple fold pattern on Youtube for putting the seeds in that fabulous paper! Then you're not even needing to use the glue. :)